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It seems like you can’t swing a purse these days without knocking over four idiots. So let’s all get together and laugh at them in the Idiot of the Week Blog Hop! You’ll have all week to decide on the biggest idiot in your life, write a hilarious tribute to him or her, and share it through the link-up between Thursday and Sunday. Next week I will announce the winner based on the post with the highest number of ‘Likes’.

Here are some ground rules:

1. Grab the badge below and include it in your post, or just link back to this post.

2. Share the link to your specific Idiot of the Week post (not your blog as a whole) through the link-up found at the bottom of this post.

3. Be sure to read/comment/like the other posts in the link up. Don’t be stingy with the ‘Likes’ just to win!

4. Remember that this is the internet so be judicious in your idiot-bashing.

Have fun!

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Thank you to those who joined this week’s Idiot of the Week Blog Hop! This week’s winner is Jill at Universal Musings for her post on HR no-no’s, which I could totally relate to! For a good laugh check it out here.

And an honorable mention to Gabi at Gabi’s Stuff for her post on mis-spellings that really should have been caught. Check it out here.

It seems like every time I go use the bathroom at work, there is a group of men standing right in front of the restroom door, shooting the breeze. Why? Why is this ‘the place to be.’ Do you enjoy the ambiance? Can’t get enough of that refreshing public bathroom scent? Or maybe this is a great place to pick up women?

“So, do you come here often?”

“Yes, about four times a day, ever since I started drinking a liter of water before lunch.”

Can you please.go.stand.SOMEWHERE ELSE!? I don’t know why it bothers me so much. Even though using the bathroom is a perfectly normal and acceptable thing to do, I always feel slightly embarrassed and ‘caught in the act’ if I have to make eye contact with someone as I walk in or out. No matter how hard I try to look normal, my eyes just scream, “I was just sitting on the toilet and we both know it, awkward!” I always blush and have some kind of “Busted!” look on my face.

And it’s not just that these guys loiter around the door. They stand right in front of it, as if they are guarding it. Like they are going to ask me to “answer me these questions three” before they let me pass. So I always have to awkwardly cut through their conversation to get inside. You’d think that would be a wake up call. Like, “Oh, haha, wow I am standing right in front of the door to the women’s restroom, like a fucking creep, maybe I should move over a foot or two.” But no.

Another layer of discomfort is added to the situation if the same group of guys is standing there when you walk in and when you walk out. I feel like the meter is running on me. Like their conversation is going to time stamp my trip to the bathroom. “Wow, she was in there that whole time? When she went in we were talking about Syria and when she came out we were listing all the food trucks we’ve been to.” If you think I am being overly paranoid, you are wrong. If you think I flatter myself that anyone would notice how long I’ve been in the bathroom, think again. People notice. In my first week at a previous job, a male coworker pointed something out to me when a female coworker stepped out of the office. “See that, she is off to take her afternoon dump. 2:00 every day. You’ll see.” I learned two important things that day. 1. Don’t use the bathroom around 2:10 and 2. People notice everything.

Maybe it would help if I said something to these men. Not something like, “Excuse me.” No, something more aggressive and implicative like, “Do you often loiter outside women’s restrooms?” or “Is there anywhere else in this hallway you could stand so that I don’t have to request your permission to use the bathroom?” Or something else intended to humiliate and question their character. I know that would give me a good enough reason to stand somewhere else.

It seems like you can’t swing a purse these days without knocking over four idiots. So let’s all get together and laugh at them in the Idiot of the Week Blog Hop! You’ll have all week to decide on the biggest idiot in your life, write a hilarious tribute to him or her, and share it through the link-up between Thursday and Sunday. On Monday, I will announce the winner based on the post with the highest number of ‘Likes’.

Here are some ground rules:

1. Grab the badge below and include it in your post, or just link back to this post.

2. Share the link to your specific Idiot of the Week post (not your blog as a whole) through the link-up found at the bottom of this post.

3. Be sure to read/comment/like the other posts in the link up. Don’t be stingy with the ‘Likes’ just to win!

4. Remember that this is the internet so be judicious in your idiot-bashing.